Painted in 1993 for Mangkaja Arts, Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia
Mary Macha, Perth, Western Australia
Private Collection, Melbourne
The Dennis and Debra Scholl Collection, Miami, acquired by private treaty from the above

Nevada, Nevada Museum of Art, No Boundaries: Aboriginal Australian Contemporary Abstract Painting, 13 February to 13 May 2015, and additional venues:
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, 20 June to 16 August 2015
Pérez Art Museum, Miami, 17 September 2015 to 3 January 2016
Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, 18 January to 15 May 2016
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, New York, 9 June to 14 August 2016

Henry F. Skerritt, ed. et al, No Boundaries: Australian Aboriginal Contemporary Abstract Painting, Prestel Verlag, Munich-London-New York, 2014, pp.30-31 (illus. detail), p.47, p.49 (illus.)

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas, on stretcher, unframed. Bears Mankaja Arts catalogue number PC 28/93 and signed “Butcher” on reverse. The work appears to be in excellent condition overall with no visible evidence of repair or restoration.
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Yidirla the Gooniyandi wet or monsoonal season is associated with the Jangala ancestral Snake. Winds from the north bring regular heavy rains causing the tributaries to run over a vast area of land into the Fitzroy floodplain, floating debris of branches and leaves into a swelling and fast flowing Fitzroy River. Floods are common. It is a time when the sweet tasting, honey-like garn-gi plants (bullwood) flower and their fruit is ready to collect. It is also a good time to fish for balga (barramundi), gooloomangarri (catfish), freshwater sawfish (galwanyi) and other species. The original accompanying documentation read, “This is floodwater. It is where the water comes together from the small river to the big river. Little creeks come into the Fitzroy River. You can see them, the water goes underneath and the big river water goes on top.”

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